Another way of looking at how cold this month has been here in Edinburgh, is to look at the temperature anomalies for this month and in this case, I have chosen Edinburgh Gogarbank for that.
As of 14 April 2021, the average temperature for this month was 4.4°C, which is 3.5°C below the 1981-2010 April average for that particular station.
Daytime temperatures have been slowly improving over recent days, and the average maximum temperature during this month so far is 9.8°C as of 14 April, which is only 1.8°C below our 1981-2010 April average.
As I have already said in this thread though, we are still getting a lot of air frosts just now and as of 14 April 2021, the average minimum temperature was -1.1°C which is a massive 5.2°C colder than the 1981-2010 April average for that particular station.
There has been some hints in the model output that the second half of this month could warm up a bit and we saw during February how even with a very cold first half of any month, that month as a whole can very easily still end up being warmer than average in the end as a result.
As far as this month is concerned, there is still an outside chance of our daytime maximum temperatures getting up to slightly above average in the end. However, there is still a risk of further air frosts (or at the very least, some further ground frosts) and that was something which didn't happen during February. Because of that, this month is unlikely to end up being anything else but colder than average.
That is particularly true with regards to our night-time minimum temperatures and if we continue to see a sub-zero average minimum temperature when we get to the end of this month, that will be very remarkable indeed for this far into the year, especially as we are now halfway through what is supposed to be our meteorological "spring".
The north of Edinburgh, usually always missing out on snow events which occur not just within the rest of Scotland or the UK, but also within the rest of Edinburgh.